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Show Cotlling Moth. Tho apple crop of the territory be ing in such imminent danger, a special reporter waited on Thomas H. Woodbury, Esq., horlkiiltm ist, to' obtain some reliable data on which to base advice to the readers of tLe Heiuld. Mr. Woodbury showed worms, and the chrysalis and the moth. Tho first are now changing into the second state, and in two or three weeks will be flying around as moth?. Eggs will then be laid and about the middle of Juno worm3 will be making devastation among tho apple i. Now is the time to commence com-mence ft war upon them. Remove the old bark from the trees and burn 1 what is acraped off; when the molbs fly have any traps you please to try and catch them, but be sure to be ready for June and subsequent months. Have pieces of rough board, say half-an-inch thick, three inches wide and seven or eight inches long, (any size will do, though,) lay two pieces together and have two or more such traps at the foot of each apple treo; go around amongst them every week, kill the worniB between the boards by rubbing tho pieces together to-gether and put them down again, and so continue till cold weather. Woolen rags placed at the forks of trees are also a good trop to catch the worms in. Liming and tarring trees are very good auxiliaries in the matterof killing a few, but they are useless when exclusively resorted to, and continually tarring is held to bc injurious. Traps for catching the mollis will be experimented with , soon and progress reported. we urge co-operauon in ngnung these pests. It is not a matter which affects one person less than it does another, and unanimity of action should exist in the matter. We hear already of organizations being effected in some wards an active man being appointed on each block to see that all persons having trees use their weapons wea-pons against these destroyers, and so rid our territory of the present dagger to the apple crop. If moro than half a crop cannot be raised this year, the foundation may be laid for a full crop next year. |